KrymeCain

My boyfriend broke up with me last month so it’s been really difficult for me to want to do things by myself. I’ve really needed to be surrounded by friends and family who care about me for a while. However, I feel like it’s time to start this goal again—even if all I do is go to the Starbucks downtown.
I am going to be comfortable with myself again!

I definitely need to work on this. I’ve gotten to the point where I don’t even want to go downtown or to the grocery store unless I have a friend come along. However, I hate this as I really don’t want to be clingy. As a young adult, I really need to get over this fear. In a few years I will graduate from college and hopefully move away from home, so I will need to prepare myself for living along and doing more things by myself.
I’m not even sure why I have such a panic attack when thinking of being myself. So, I think the first thing I’m going to work on to accomplish this is to find out why this terrifies me so much. Once I’ve narrowed that down a little, I can start taking small steps towards conquering this. Maybe a walk down to the park one day?

I find that living here in Japan has helped me improve my posture a little. Back in America, it is a common thing to see people slouched over all the time so I never gave it much thought. However, when I came to Japan last year I immediately noticed how almost everyone sits so perfectly upright so I wanted to improve my own instead of sticking out like the stereotypical “lazy American”.
I still have a long way before I’ll have the same beautiful Japanese posture, but I’m happy it’s getting better! It’s all about small steps. (: